Wait. " Clary was suddenly nervous. "The melted metal-it could be, like, toxic or something. " Maia snorted. "I'm from New Jersey. I born in toxic sludge.
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
It would never occur to me to map my research against events in my life, and the recent history of globalization seems to be part of someone else's life. Still, maybe I have been trying to fill in a history or address that amnesia for the recent past. There's so much that's opaque about the ways in which extra layers of global governance have developed since Pax Americana and really accelerated in these last thirty, forty years.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions of the world, including the Yoga of Patanjali, though they were never advertised as ultimate keys to enlightenment, merely as stepping-stones on the spiritual path.
You never want to concede a place, but when you're leading the race or fighting for a podium position you can find ways to make your car very wide!